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Malicious MAL-2025-191617

aiohttp-openssl

PyPI package · versions 3.13.1

Reported Oct 24, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (67b219a81e6b2dd7db78b4b223da914ee7baefd0ab056940d3af0bc3b47846a0)
Packages silently decrypt content hidden in a dependency and load them as Python extension modules.

In the first wave, those are copies of legitimate aiohttp and aiohappyeyeballs packages.
In the second wave, malicious packages created good-looking forks of legitimate rich and pigments packages.

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-10-asynhttp

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

- exfiltration-generic

- obfuscation

- clones-real-package

- native-extension